Another end of the month, another Clinton email dump. Below via foia.state.gov:

The Department is conducting a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) review of all emails provided by former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. Starting in June 2015, a new set of emails from this collection will be released on this site at the end of each month. These monthly releases will continue until the entire collection of records is reviewed for public release, and all releasable records will be available on this site.

In May 2015, the Department released a set of 296 of these documents which previously had been provided in February 2015 to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. These and additional emails released in coming months from this collection will be available here.

On December 1, 2008, President-elect Obama formally announced that Clinton would be his nominee for Secretary of State. On January 21, 2009, Clinton was confirmed in the full Senate by a vote of 94–2. The emails we have looked at so far from this latest dump are from the start of her tenure with routine staffing issues, folks looking for jobs, people recommending others, stuff like that. There are some interesting ones:

This is a June 2009 email to HRC chief of staff Cheryl Mills from an individual (name redacted) seeking other opportunities at the State Department. Remember this pitch … “years of successfully making high ranking government officials look good.”

Here is an email from an individual (name redacted) “applying for a job” sent to Nicholas Blair, son of former UK PM Tony Blair, forwarded to Cherie Blair, who then forwarded the resume to HRC:

If the secretary of state wants to hire you, it’s only a question of tasking someone to find a slot for you at WHA, S/P (policy planning shop) or elsewhere, really — but “someone who lacks discretion is not possible.”

State/OBO’s very difficult time and what looks like a staffing pitch in 2009 from “M”:

In September 2009, then US Ambassador Susman in London sent an email to Cheryl Mills about a Schedule C appointee referred for a Special Assistant job to the ambassador. Ambassador Susman writes that the individual “was so overqualified for the position we need to fill” and that he appointed the individual to a [REDACTED] which the individual was apparently “very excited about.” Ambassador Susman attached the individual’s letter to him and forwarded it to Ms. Mills. A Schedule C at every groovy embassy? Since when did we start hiring Schedule C appointees for overseas missions? Is this some big gun or some kid of some big gun, you think? Schedule C positions are excepted from the competitive service because of their confidential or policy-determining character. Most such positions are at grade 15 of the General Schedule or lower.

There’s more but gotta make dinner. In any case as early as May 2009, just four months into her tenure, folks were already talking about 21st statecraft as a “major part of HRC’s legacy.”

Our favorite email, if we could pick one, is probably the one sent by Huma Abedin to HRC in November 2009 about Kurt somebody who did not want his sleep disturbed:

There is certainly one email on the mandatory retirement, most likely that 2009 email update (redacted) is about the Colton lawsuit. Dr. Colton also sent a dissent cable, so it should be interesting to see if any of that will show up in any dump.